Poll claim on Marbles

By Nigel Reynolds

12:01AM BST 16 Oct 2002

Campaigners for the Elgin Marbles to be returned to Greece claimed yesterday that the British public now supports restitution.

Only seven per cent would oppose returning the marbles, which are kept at the British Museum. And 56 per cent would be happy for them to be sent back to Athens under new conditions offered by the Greek government, according to a Mori poll commissioned by the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles and published yesterday.